Aesthetic Democracy
Title | Aesthetic Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Docherty |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780804751896 |
Aesthetic Democracy argues that the possibility of social and political democracy depends primarily upon art and aesthetics, and that it is art which determines the possibilities of human freedom.
Gods in the Time of Democracy
Title | Gods in the Time of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Kajri Jain |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2021-01-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1478012889 |
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but one of many massive statues built following India's economic reforms of the 1990s. In Gods in the Time of Democracy Kajri Jain examines how monumental icons emerged as a religious and political form in contemporary India, mobilizing the concept of emergence toward a radical treatment of art historical objects as dynamic assemblages. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork at giant statue sites in India and its diaspora and interviews with sculptors, patrons, and visitors, Jain masterfully describes how public icons materialize the intersections between new image technologies, neospiritual religious movements, Hindu nationalist politics, globalization, and Dalit-Bahujan verifications of equality and presence. Centering the ex-colony in rethinking key concepts of the image, Jain demonstrates how these new aesthetic forms entail a simultaneously religious and political retooling of the “infrastructures of the sensible.”
Melville's Art of Democracy
Title | Melville's Art of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Fredricks |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780820316826 |
This challenging and timely study demonstrates that the problems Melville faced as a writer - the relationship between politics and aesthetics and the representation of the marginalized without appropriation - are similar to issues faced in the academy today.
Mikhail Bakhtin
Title | Mikhail Bakhtin PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Hirschkop |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198159609 |
Hirschkop treats Bakhtin not as a metaphysician or a philosopher for the ages, but as a writer inevitably drawn into the historical conflicts produced by a modernizing and democratizing Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Aesthetic Politics
Title | Aesthetic Politics PDF eBook |
Author | F. R. Ankersmit |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780804727303 |
Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential "A Theory of Justice," this book looks at politics from an aesthetic perspective.
Theaters of the Everyday
Title | Theaters of the Everyday PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Gallagher-Ross |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2018-04-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0810136686 |
Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century American theater became a space for negotiating the demands of innovative form and democratic availability. Offering both fresh reappraisals of canonical figures and movements and new examinations of theatrical innovators, Theaters of the Everyday reveals surprising affinities between artists often considered poles apart, such as John Cage and Lee Strasberg, and Thornton Wilder and the New York experimentalist Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Gallagher-Ross persuasively shows how these creators eschew conventional definitions of dramatic action and focus attention on smaller but no less profound dramas of perception, consciousness, and day-to-day life. Gallagher-Ross traces some of the intellectual roots of the theater of the everyday to American transcendentalism, with its pragmatic process philosophy as well as its sense of ordinary experience as the wellspring of aesthetic awareness.
Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy
Title | Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Evans |
Publisher | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN | 9780231187589 |
Fred Evans develops philosophical and political criteria for assessing how public art can respond to the fragility of democracy. He calls for considering such artworks as acts of citizenship, pointing to their capacity to resist autocratic tendencies and reveal new dimensions of democratic society.